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Jan Dismas Zelenka, the brilliant but elusive contemporary of Bach, musically served the Catholic chapel of the dazzling Dresden court during the first half of the eighteenth century. Research has uncovered biographical information, and reveals the remarkable music of a major figure of the Baroque era.

Alexander Zemlinsky

Apart from providing analyses of every major score, Beaumont gives a detailed account of the composer's early years as a protege of Brahms and Mahler, and of his career as a conductor whom both Schoenberg and Stravinsky considered the finest they ever had.